2016B Day 13: Return of the CRO – Extreme Wavefront Control Lab

Marco, Runa, Enrico, and Fernando left yesterday. Kelsey and Lauren left today. And Simone and Armando are leaving tomorrow. After Laird’s very nice technical post yesterday, I will just have some pretty pictures for today. We started the evening with a very delicious meal of Hector’s pizza which is so good! Then we got back on the CRO to take more interaction matrices, after the success of yesterday’s brief on-sky test of our basic calibrations.

Bin 1 on bottom; Bins 2-3-4 on top. — These power spectra show the input turbulence (red) and the rejection with our corrections at different orders with different numbers of modes. Yes this is a pretty picture.

Ok Alora! — Enrico took this picture of the CRO alignment — nice job! Yes this is another pretty picture.

Jared took this picture and said we are not outshining the sun... whatever. — MagAO women: Lauren, me, and Kelsey.

Vizcochito has a long tail but in this picture he is curled up tiny on the rafter and you can only see his ears. — Sunday was a 3-vizcacha day. I named them Vizzy, Grumpy, and Vizcochito.